I see the weakness of friendster.com

For the heck of it, I signed up, Rose friended me, which immediately puts like ninety percent of friendster in my gallery. Started looking around at it.

Basically, everybody who lives in the Boston area that sounds, by the description they give, like someone I'd like, I know already.

I think that, if you're part of a community, and you're looking to expand your real-life connections to the community, and you've lived in one place for your entire life, friendster.com doesn't really add all that much. Although it did give me the ability to contact a bunch of people whose email addresses I've lost. . .

Mundane normal life stuff -- Mother's Day party

So, the Becker side of the family got together at my grandparents' house there. Was fun. I had my guitar with me, since I came there from work (several of the kids in my Hebrew school goofed off by making Mother's Day cards. I did not stop them.)

The kids in my class are really decent human beings. One of the kids -- the most rambunctious kid in the class -- noticed that one of the other students was upset, and he let me know. He was clearly upset that she was upset. They all really care about one another, and do what they can to help each other. I thanked him for letting me know.
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